Middle English Dictionary Entry
daierīe n.
Entry Info
| Forms | daierīe n. Also dairie, dei(e)rie, deiȝerie. |
| Etymology | Formed in AF on ME daie , with suffix as in botelerīe, pant(e)rīe. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. daiehous.
1.
(a) A room or building for making butter and cheese; also, a room for keeping food, a pantry; (b) a dairy farm or a dairy building on a farm; also, a dairy herd.
Associated quotations
a
- [ (1279) Acc.Middleton in Archaeol.Cant.10324 : v bordae ad daeriam pro caseo superponendo. ]
- c1300 SLeg.Bridget(1) (LdMisc 108)14 : Hire deierie was euere of chese and botere bar and swiþe lene.
- c1300 SLeg.Bridget(1) (LdMisc 108)20 : Þare nas in þe deierie nouȝt adel of none ȝwite.
- a1325 SLeg.Bridget(2) (Corp-C 145)150 : Wanne he[o] sei eny pouere men, he[o] delde hit hom wel clene, Þat euere was hure deiȝerie of wiȝt bar and lene.
- (c1395) Chaucer CT.WB.(Manly-Rickert)D.871 : Thropes, bernes, shipnes, dayeryes.
b
- [ (1259) Acc.Wellingborough in North.RS 81/18 : In expensis Daerie xv d. ]
- [ (1272-3) in Davenport Nrf.Manorp.xxxiv : 1 bu. albi salis ad daieriam. ]
- [ (1361-2) Doc.Finchale in Sur.Soc.6p.lvii : Varia Recepta..pro lacticinio deiriae de Wyndgate. ]
- (1318) Pat.R.Edw.II181 : Adam de la Dayerye.
- (c1387-95) Chaucer CT.Prol.(Manly-Rickert)A.597 : His lordes sheep, his neet, his dayerye..Was hoolly in this reues gouernynge.
- (1439) Doc.in Collect.Topogr.517 : She shal hav al my deyerie and other bestes of stor, and my porcerie.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)507 : Vacherye or dayrye: Vaccaria, armentarium.
- (1473) RParl.6.82a : A Deierie, otherwise called a Wyk.
- ?c1475 *Cath.Angl.(Add 15562)34a : A Deyry: Androchiarium, bestiarium, genetheum.
- ?a1500 Lndsb.Nominale (Lndsb)793/28 : Hoc androchiatorium: a deyry.